I am not familiar – that much is immediately obvious to me looking at the first article.
On Friday, the Trump administration told The New York Times that contraception like IUDs and the Pill aren’t birth control at all—but abortion. The stunning admission came in a statement about a $10 million stockpile of IUDs, oral contraceptives, and hormonal implants the administration plans to incinerate rather than distribute to women abroad:
“President Trump is committed to protecting the lives of unborn children all around the world. The administration will no longer supply abortifacient birth control under the guise of foreign aid.”
I thought IUDs prevented fertilization and the pill prevents ovulation. It seems insane to class either as abortion. It also seems insane to burn those kind of resources instead of either letting them be distributed as planned or finding some other use for them.
I thought Trump was much closer to the ‘safe, rare, and legal’ position (putting aside state based stuff in the US); I know many republicans are anti-abortion tho. Safe, rare, legal is close to my position for what it’s worth. I think abortion should be available but not abused or used as a contraceptive (condoms are cheap, just use those as a starting point). If abortion were a service provided by socialized healthcare, I’d support most something like one free one per year (and it costs something after that), but using that every year is problematic. Note: any situation involving rape is a completely separate topic and deserves different policies.